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In Linux you get zombie processes hanging around when things go wrong, and you can't get rid of those.
Yes you can. You get rid of the zombies by killing the parent process.
Zombies are getting to be parents now?
Woke has gone too far, in my day they would have gotten a bullet between the eyes.
I think zombies go under kernel or "root process" by default now